Strange looking government building in Bruce?

What happens in the ATO data centre, stays in the ATO data centre.

ainsliebraddon said :

What happens at the ATO data centre? Is it just a big collection of computers? Does anyone know how long it has been there? I heard they might be knocking it down and building apartments.

It has been there for yonks, 20 years or more. In my taxi driving days I took a guy, on a Sunday, from Kambah to there, waited while he rebooted the great god computer and then took him home again. Good fare, my normal Sunday takings all in one hit 🙂

Pommy bastard said :

It’s a lab, they are cloning Jullia Gillard in there. It’s a plot by the Welsh to take over Australia.

Keeping up with the Joneses, hey?

It’s a lab, they are cloning Jullia Gillard in there. It’s a plot by the Welsh to take over Australia.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

be that as it may, the building houses Verizon.

No it dosen’t. This is the ATO one.

The real purpose of any datacenter is, of course, to keep diesel mechanics employed.

As for what datacenters are really for – the SAP applications you use at work are usually hosted on a box sitting under the sysadmins desk. The datacenter is just for show, so the rest of the world can believe that you’re a “serious” outfit – after all, running a datacenter usually means you’re employing a couple of full time diesel mechanics. Usually the floorspace is 110% sublet out to other people who aren’t clued in enough to run SAP and SAAS on a box under the desk. Income generation from capital assets, folks.

And did I mention the job creation for diesel mechanics?

bitzermaloney said :

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I think you will find it is actually Verizon who host most govt websites

There are multiple organisations that host government websites, including Verizon, Telstra, Unisys, Optus, CSC, HP, IBM, Hostworks, etc.

A data centre is not just a place that host websites, to grossly simplify it, they operate as server rooms in a remote location. Chances are that if you are at work (in the federal public service & many SME & Corporates) many of the applications (eg. SAP) that you use reside on physical servers in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane.

be that as it may, the building houses Verizon.

Well at least we can satisfy the OP in agreeing that it does not contain UFOs and dissected aliens.

colourful sydney racing identity said :

I think you will find it is actually Verizon who host most govt websites

There are multiple organisations that host government websites, including Verizon, Telstra, Unisys, Optus, CSC, HP, IBM, Hostworks, etc.

A data centre is not just a place that host websites, to grossly simplify it, they operate as server rooms in a remote location. Chances are that if you are at work (in the federal public service & many SME & Corporates) many of the applications (eg. SAP) that you use reside on physical servers in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane.

Well well well the CIA has conned you all hasn’t it? Data Centre phooey! It’s just a ‘smokescreen’ for its real purpose. The data was all moved out to Dickson, Deakin and Lyneham several years ago in fake furniture removal vans. This buliding is now being used to manufacture the chemtrails that the CIA is seeding the world with in a bid to counter the creeping rise of global warming awareness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psdg3OAw_a8

The truth is there people, and to think they manufacture this stuff right here in the ACT. What’s the guvmnt doing about that then, eh?

For the people who have identified them as ATO and Verizon DC please provide your name, number, and home address.

We will be sending some MIB to do some eye test.

I worked there some time ago, thats how I know that it is ATO

And why do you want to know what is there? I might have to call the Terrorist hotline on you 😛

ainsliebraddon said :

What happens at the ATO data centre? Is it just a big collection of computers?

What happens is a big collection of computers sit there in racks or pods processing data. In fact, the best DCs are “lights out” – they strive to minimise people visiting onsite. It’s really nothing exiciting to see, unless you just love rackmounted metal/plastic boxes with a few blinkenlights (which some of us do.)

If like shiny computer rooms, the IPA boys are truly anal about theirs – customised colour-coded racks and all.

It looks like some sort of data center to me.

watto23 said :

Its not defence though, their datacentres are in defence buildings and not outsourced.

.. yet.

What happens at the ATO data centre? Is it just a big collection of computers? Does anyone know how long it has been there? I heard they might be knocking it down and building apartments.

Can confirm Verizon, an aquaintance works out there.

I worked there about 6 years ago. As the first commenter stated, this is the ATO data centre, there is another one diagonally behind it which is the Verizon data centre. I recently heard that the ATO one is getting decommissioned and redeveloped in to something else, not sure how true this is though.

Everything old is new again – this building has been a feature of RA discussions before. Prepare for the crazies again.

Gantz said :

A friend recently got a Job in Defence. Said the building was in Bruce, could that be it?

I think they might be in this one;

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Its definately a datacentre. been in there a few times. There is another sort of behind it. Its not defence though, their datacentres are in defence buildings and not outsourced.

Ditto for data centre. Not just the ATO, several departments.

A friend recently got a Job in Defence. Said the building was in Bruce, could that be it?

I think you will find it is actually Verizon who host most govt websites

Its the ATO Data Centre